Elective Care Training and Validation Manager

Elective Care Training and Validation Manager

AfC Band 7

Main area Elective Care Grade AfC Band 7 Contract Fixed term: 6 months (Secondment available
- Post expiry is 31st March 2027) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job
-CORP-8193512-B7

Site Unipart Group Headquarters, Cowley Town Cowley Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 01/10/2026 23:59

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital
, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this
Delivering Compassionate Excellence
and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Many of our recruitment programmes use
Value Based Interviewing
to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit

We are looking for an experienced and motivated
Elective Care Training and Validation Manager to support the delivery of high-quality elective access services across the Trust.

This is a key role within the Elective Access Team, supporting the delivery of national 18-week Referral to Treatment standards, improving waiting list management, and strengthening data quality across elective pathways. The post holder will work closely with operational, clinical, administrative, information and training teams to ensure patient pathways are managed safely, consistently and effectively.

The successful candidate will lead and support the RTT validation and training team, oversee routine validation processes, provide expert advice on elective access and RTT rules, and deliver high-quality training to staff across the organisation. They will also play an important role in identifying pathway risks, escalating issues, supporting service improvement, and helping teams to understand and use elective care data to improve patient care.

This role would suit someone with strong knowledge of elective access, RTT pathway management and waiting list processes, alongside excellent communication, analytical and leadership skills. You will need to be confident working across services, supporting change, and helping teams deliver safe, timely and patient-focused care.

This role provides day-to-day leadership for the Trust’s elective care training and RTT validation functions, supporting safe, timely and well-managed patient pathways. You will oversee routine RTT validation, monitor inpatient and outpatient PTLs, escalation of pathway risks, data quality issues and potential breaches, and work with operational, clinical, administrative and information teams to ensure elective access standards are understood and applied consistently.

You will lead the corporate RTT validation and training team, develop and deliver training, support RTT super users, analyse performance and waiting list data, produce reports, support audits and identify improvement opportunities. Acting as a key contact for elective access and 18-week RTT queries, you will support service…